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Four American soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as U.S. and coalition forces dig in for the final fighting season of the over decade-long war. 

Three NATO troops were killed on Monday when Taliban insurgents set off a truck bomb at an alliance outpost in Southern Afghanistan. 

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U.S. commanders are keeping a key anti-missile weapon system in Guam on alert for possible North Korean attacks, despite the recent lull in tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. 

The man, Ahmed Abassi, allegedly plotted to derail a New York-bound train near the Canadian border. 

Afghan president Hamid Karzai wants to cap the number of American bases in Afghanistan after the U.S. military withdraws from the country in 2014, setting the stage for a final postwar troop presence.

The top investigator at Strategic Command has been ordered to review mistakes in the Air Force's nuclear enterprise that led to the termination of 17 service officials this week. 

NATO leaders are launching an inquiry into allegations of misconduct by the alliance's special forces in southern Afghanistan. 

The Pentagon's funding request for the final years of the Afghan war will arrive on Capitol Hill by the end of this month, according to the department's No. 2 official. 

Several members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) took part in last year’s terrorist attack on the U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya, CNN reported.

A senior law enforcement official told CNN that “three or four” men who took part in the attack were from Yemen and members of AQAP.

It’s unclear still whether they had been sent by AQAP to take part in the attack or were already in Benghazi and joined as the opportunity arose.

But the country still hasn’t developed the technology to weaponize the long-range missile, according to the assessment.